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...lifelong liberal "who was participating in civil rights marches in 1963. He speaks out on the nuclear freeze and gay rights and why everyone should use seat belts, although he feels awkward doing it, because he thinks he should. After a frustrating nuclear-freeze debate on television recently with Hollywood conservative Charlton Heston, Newman was doubtful about his own effectiveness. But he is an experienced campaigner, and he soon cheered up. "I've done better and I've done worse, but in the final analysis, it was better than not doing anything at all." His interest in weapons...
...long way from the normal concerns of sculpture, which impose themselves in a "masculine" manner on culture. What Bourgeois sets up is a totemic, surrealistic imagery of weak threats, defenses, lairs, wombs, almost inchoate groupings of form. Her work is by turns aggressive and pathetic, sexually charged and physically awkward, tense and shapeless. It employs an imagery of encounter to render concrete an almost inescapable sense of solitude. In short, it is physically, if not always formally, rich stuff, and one may be glad that the Museum of Modern Art and Associate Curator Deborah Wye have set it forth...
...shake the radical impression that if the young lovers had only appealed to their families for help, unexpected understanding might have Everett the disaster. And whether any invention of the sort comes from the script or not-presumably not-it comes through clearly when played. Both lovers appear awkward and withdrawn at home. becoming human and open only to each other...
...young couple fell in love at Longlea, Millionaire Charles E. Marsh's mock 18th century manor, set on 1,000 acres of Virginia hunt country. He was an awkward, ambitious, first-term Congressman named Lyndon Johnson, and she was Alice Glass, then 26, a stately and bright young beauty with blond-ochre hair that one admirer said "shimmered and gleamed like nothing you ever saw." The previously undisclosed love affair is described by Pulitzer Prizewinner Robert Caro in Volume I of The Years of Lyndon Johnson, excerpted in the November Atlantic Monthly...
...only professors who can pass all these check points are almost invariably comfortably established with tenure at another university, thrusting Harvard in the awkward role of faculty raider, whether at MIT or else where...